漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food
箋: paper, label
Also: letter, composition
N1 (our estimate)14 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 竹bamboo(meaning)
- 戔(form)
竹 carries the meaning · 戔 is drawn in
14 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
センsen · on'yomi · in compounds
- 便箋びんせんwriting paper; stationery; notepaper
- 処方箋しょほうせん
- 箋せんslip (of paper)
Also read ふだ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Flexible and strong! Imagine a thicket of green bamboo swaying in the wind, bending but never breaking.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 笺 · traditional, as in Japanese · jiān
Japan keeps the traditional form 箋; mainland China simplifies it to 笺.
- Simplified
- 笺 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 箋 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jiān most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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